With undoubted propriety, we may speak of the first two, the last two, the first three, the last three, &c.; but to say, the two first, the two last, &c., with this meaning, is obviously and needlessly inaccurate.

"It is usual to censure Burnet as a singularly inaccurate historian; but I believe the charge to be altogether unjust.

The preceding Fenwick note to this poem is manifestly inaccurate as to date, since the poem is printed in the "Lyrical Ballads" of 1800.

Herrera is exceedingly inaccurate in his measures, as the real direct distance is only 55 Spanish leagues.

" "False returns, your Excellency means?" "They will no doubt be formally inaccurate," the President admitted.

That was the view in that century of grandly inaccurate assertions, the nineteenth.

He produced several superficial and grossly inaccurate schoolbooks,like his Animated Nature and his histories of England, Greece, and Rome,which brought him bread and more fine clothes, and his Vicar of Wakefield, The Deserted Village, and She Stoops to Conquer, which brought him undying fame.

He was not to be blamed for this happily inaccurate picture; he was justified by the behaviour of Winona and her mother.

With undoubted propriety, we may speak of the first two, the last two, the first three, the last three, &c.; but to say, the two first, the two last, &c., with this meaning, is obviously and needlessly inaccurate.

But excellent as was M. de Blowitz's narrative from the romantic standpoint his information was sadly inaccurate.

In respect to definitions, too, most of these writers are shamefully inaccurate, or deficient.

He is a dignified figure with a shiny curl on his forehead, and a rich Cockney accent, full of information, generally, I must admit, strikingly inaccurate, but bestowed with such an air.

This marked copy he had sent to the Bristol bookseller, before he himself went to Bristol to attend the trial, and under these circumstances any pretence of ignorance of the contents of the book was transparently inaccurate.

I am afraid I was a trifle inaccurate with regard to details, but the precise truth is a luxury that very few of us can afford to indulge in.

The impression given by Thackeray, in his notice (genial enough, and well-meant, doubtless) of Irving's death, is absurdly inaccurate.

How he managed it was something of a puzzle, for he never had painting lessons, his drawing was often wildly inaccurate, and, while his perception of a Tree Personality was true and vivid, his rendering of it might almost approach the ludicrous.

Of volumes by travellers who devote more or less space to New Zealand, the most noteworthy are Dilke's brilliant "Greater Britain," the volumes of Anthony Trollope, and Michael Davitt, and Froude's thoughtful, interesting, but curiously inaccurate "Oceana."

I confess that, if Herr Parish's version were as correct as it is essentially inaccurate, his explanation would leave me doubtful.